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By and large the boomers won't vote for someone younger than them (notice our politicians are the oldest they've ever been and have been getting older since the
by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
By and large the boomers won't vote for someone younger than them (notice our politicians are the oldest they've ever been and have been getting older since the boomers started voting).
I bet their other preferences have a lot to do with the decrease in new 80s-type movie stars, because the other thing that we've seen is the retention of stars well past their prime. I mean, they brought back Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher for the new Star Wars.
- JohnFen 3y agoAs of 2022, boomers only make up 20.58% of the US population, though. https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-share-by-generation/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-sha...
- HDThoreaun 3y agoDo they go to the movies at a higher rate though? My gut says yes, the young people I know generally never go and older folk who grew up with less entertainment options still do.
- thfuran 3y agoA bunch of my peers go to the movies pretty frequently and, though perhaps we're not precisely "young people" anymore, boomers are decades older.
- JohnFen 3y agoThis 2019 study found that On a whole, the study showed that 35.2 percent of U.S. moviegoers are above the age of 50; and 33.8 percent under the age of 25. So, at least then, the distribution seems very roughly even. And there are fewer boomers living today than in 2019. Anecdotally, I am an older gen-X, not a boomer, but going to the movies is not a frequent thing (anymore) amongst my social group. For whatever that's worth. https://www.digitalcinemareport.com/news/new-study-tracks-ages-gender-moviegoers https://www.digitalcinemareport.com/news/new-study-tracks-ag...